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Your Qantas Points can stretch further, especially with a rare 25% off sale in certain cabin classes! Until 6 December, enjoy 25% off the points needed for Classic Flight Rewards in Economy or Premium Economy Class on Qantas flights to Paris, Santiago, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Discounts like this don’t come around all that often, so be sure to get cracking if you’ve got the points to burn now.
Deal: 25% off selected Qantas reward seats
| Expiry: book between 2-6 Dec 2025. Travel on any available date in the booking calendar. |
- Valid on Qantas-operated flights to CDG, SCL, HIR or VLI.
- Travel on any available date with reward seat availability
- Book between 2-6 December 2025
| Route/Discounted Price | Economy | Premium Economy |
| Perth-Paris | 44,100 pts + $242 | 85,400 pts + $331 |
| Sydney-Santiago | 36,100 pts + $207 | 73,200 pts + $277 |
| Brisbane-Solomon Islands | 15,500 pts + $118 | n/a |
| Brisbane-Vanuatu | 10,300 pts + $118 | n/a |
That gives your Qantas Points a value of 2.18 cents each for this redemption – higher than our valuation of _v(1,qff) each. In this case, using Qantas Points for the discounted reward seat would be a good deal.
How to take advantage of this promotion
- Log in to your Qantas Frequent Flyer account and select Use points to search for your flights.
- Search for Economy Classic Flight Rewards before 11:59 pm AEDT on 22 January 2023.
- If you’re searching for an eligible route during a suitable date range, the discounted rates will show automatically.
Offer history
Previous promotions have run as follows:
| Date | Discount (%) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | 30 | Qantas domestic routes |
| June 2022 | 30 | Selected international routes on Qantas and Jetstar |
| November 2021 | 30 | Australian domestic flights on Qantas and Jetstar |
| May 2021 | 30 | Australian and New Zealand flights |
| February 2020 | 30 | Select flights to New Zealand, Fiji and the US; includes Premium Economy & Business Class |
| Average | 29.44 |
Quick and ongoing opportunities to boost your Qantas Points balance
Three of the quickest ways to top up your Qantas Frequent Flyer balance are to:
- Transfer points from a family member: usually instant but can take up to an hour.
- Buy wine through Qantas Wine: usually within 24 hours but can take up to five business days.
- Buy top-up Qantas Points: instant but the most expensive option.
In the longer term, you can earn Qantas Points by:
- Signing up for a Qantas Points-earning credit card.
- Taking advantage of bonus Qantas Points offers.
- Swiping your Everyday Rewards card and opting to earn Qantas Points.
- Booking accommodation through Airbnb.
Summing up
While the best value for redeeming your points is usually found in Business and First Class, there are cases where redeeming your points for Economy Class tickets can make good sense.
Note, though, that these promotions don’t take into account the taxes and fees that Qantas charges on reward flight bookings. These are reasonable on domestic flights and a bit higher on trans-Tasman flights.
Frequently asked questions
Everyone’s financial situation, points balances and preferences are different. This means that the option of using points for Economy Class travel should not be written off. This guide can help you decide.
No, the discount does not extend to the ordinary surcharges and taxes that apply to Classic Flight Reward redemptions.
Yes, you can, but make sure to consider any change or cancellation fees. It normally costs 6,000 Qantas Points (per person) to cancel a reward seat booking.
Use the tables provided in our guide to check the pricing and see if it matches the base rate or the discounted rate.
This promotion covers travel on Qantas and Jetstar.
If you mix Qantas and Jetstar flights, the whole itinerary will be priced at the higher Qantas rate.
No. As usual, you will not earn any points on reward flights. If you are a Points Club member, you can earn limited Status Credits on reward flights.
No, it does not.
This guide was originally written by Matt Moffitt.
Interesting to note – though very eleventh hour for this May 21 iteration! – that good ole Qantas offers travel for this promo to 9 December 21, but as a nice little seductive extra encouragement, allows us to change the date or cancel without penalty…….for nearly another three months after that end date, to Feb 28, 22.
Onyer Qantas!
The taxes really take away from these promotions.
Syd > Nadi business is $273 + points
Thanks for letting me know about this.
I just booked a MEL – Noumea flight for my wife and two of our kids in the September school holidays for about 100k QFF points + $1100 taxes. Very happy indeed. Thanks Point Hacks.
On va parler francais 🙂
You’re welcome Ross!
Hi there,
I thought I should let you know that this particular iteration of the promo actually allows Jetstar AND Emirates flights as part of the deal. The article should be updated to reflect this.
Hi I had a huge problem with this promotion – it turns out the website was swamped and the jetstar reward flights I booked a week ago are still being “processed”. Put on hold for 30 mins, promised to sort out – still not sorted out as of today. Was told a heap of other people in same boat as me.
Mike
Ah, that’s no good. Thanks for sharing your experience for others, though.
hi
this offers value for family trips to amazing holidays in rural australia where prices are inflated for mining, monopolies etc
last year we went to Exmouth to swim with whale sharks – even on sale the flights from exmouth to perth were the most expensive part of the holiday – so this offer could be perfect.
It was one of best family holidays ever.
Has Qantas ever (or rarely) offered discounts for J/F redemptions??
Hi Matt,
I understand using points for flights does not add status credits but does it count as a segment flown to help reach new tier?
I’m not 100% sure on this but looking at the Qantas Frequent Flyer terms and conditions, I’d say no. From what I understand, an eligible flight is what determines if that segment is counted and an eligible flight is a flight purchased with cash or Point Plus Pay. You may want to clarify with Qantas.
I looked at Perth San Francisco which sells on occasion for $1100 return. By the time you paid taxes for 2 ($1010) and 110,000 points, the real value of the points was 1.08c. The best value of course is a one world RTW in business which I estimate at about 5c.
It really is outrageous these QF award fees, most full service airlines charge so little, take AA and CX about one quarter of Qantas.
Can you tell me some dates I can get flights between Sydney and Melbourne for 8,000 points please???
This guide helps to teach you.
Hi Matt, I think you neglected to mention taxes and surcharges on reward redemption when working out the “true” point value. As you would be aware, the high taxes and surcharges on QF means this is the main reason economy redemptions are such poor value.
E.g. in your BNE-LAX example, you would be charged $600 odd in taxes on top of the 67,500 points. This means the $2000 cash fare should be reduced down to $1400 for the purpose of $/point calculation.
($2000 – $600) / 67,500 points = a meager 2 cents per point, not 3 cents per point.
This also means most AU domestic flights would struggle to reach even 1.5 cents per point in value except for the monopoly routes.
You’re 100% right! That’s why the best value for redeeming your points is usually found in Business and First Class. I’ve updated the article to mention taxes and fees.
Would be interesting to find out if you can upgrade to business after purchasing the discounted economy?
I agree with Guy. I can’t see any Sydney-Melbourne for 8,000 let alone 6,000. It is more around 20,000 plus
This guide may help answer your question.
Hi,
Great article. Just a quick question, it says in the table that a redemption for a Sydney to Melbourne is 8000 points then discounted down to 6000. I’ve searched a variety of dates and I’m finding nothing below 18000 points for one way. Am I doing something wrong?
Sydney to Melbourne is 439 miles, which falls into Zone 1 of the award chart, regularly costing 8,000 points one-way in Economy. Zone 3 is the one that costs 18,000 for flights 1,201-2,400 miles. Make sure you’re searching one-way Sydney to Melbourne in Economy.
An eligible flight is an Economy Classic Flight Rewards operated by Qantas and booked with a Qantas (QF) flight number on your ticket to all Qantas domestic Australian and all international destinations to and from Australia (including Australian domestic transfers on Qantas flights with QF flight number).
According to the above, Jetstar flights are not included as part of the promotion. Which makes a QF redemption cheaper than a JQ one
Apologies! These promos usually include both Qantas and Jetstar flights but May 2017’s promo doesn’t include the latter, so it’s just Qantas-operated flights this time. Guide updated!
There’s nothing on Qantas website about 25% off points sale?
Here is the promotion page.
Hi Matt, thanks for this. Would you know if this applies to all Qantas and Jetstar economy redemptions? I had an attempt at Melbourne – Sunshine Coast via Jetstar and it’s showing up as 9,600 points one way which appears to be the normal redemption rate. Appreciate your thoughts on this, thanks! Zai
Apologies! These promos usually include both Qantas and Jetstar flights but May 2017’s promo doesn’t include the latter, so it’s just Qantas-operated flights this time. Guide updated!